Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:07:24 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update Message-ID: <38668639-4BD7-4FA4-B96F-4EA15F5518D7@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <1390662664.13404.75208481.39F16B29@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <lblts0$9o1$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAJ5UdcO6V_YnyoJSA=JRL_D7vFzZ8yXcKnh2QcjNQDskbpE98w@mail.gmail.com> <5F09668C-0DEA-4074-A06C-BC4D29F92368@FreeBSD.org> <201401211149.45793.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1uiNcWPuJL=O6osDhZci_YBXe7tRW0Nt_cUy25cCTbALQ@mail.gmail.com> <52E2C1BC.10202@allanjude.com> <20140125113236.GX86491@e-new.0x20.net> <1390662664.13404.75208481.39F16B29@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Am 25.01.2014 um 16:11 schrieb Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 5:32, Lars Engels wrote: >> >> >> Also using freebsd-update behind a proxy is really slow. Even with a >> very fast internet connection (normally download rates ca. 3 MBytes / s) >> downloading all the tiny binary diff files took more than 8 hours. >> Maybe freebsd-update's backend could create a tarball of all those diffs >> and provide this? > > Even streaming the tar instead of waiting for the freebsd-update server > to produce the tarball would be an improvement. I have no experience > doing that over a WAN but I don't see why it would be unreliable. Apropos proxy: freebsd-update does not work behind a proxy that requires authentication. At least not with our proxy (which is a Sophos/Astaro „threat management appliance"). That’s OK for me, because I can talk the proxy-guys here into making an exception for my FreeBSD-servers - but It’s really a nuisance because everything else (that uses libfetch) can use proxy-authentication.help
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